logging-bee

No ship-launch frame-raising, logging-bee, or dance, was considered complete without him, and while his strength was almost equal to that of any two of his companions, his merry laugh was so infectious that even envy couldn't resist joining in, when public opinion pronounced him 'the best man in the county.'

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

She would not be asked to go to Parliament by any of us – we gave him our word that she was immune from public duties of that nature, for we knew the lady and her limitations, and we knew she was safe – safe as a glass of milk at an old-fashioned logging-bee; safe as a dish of cold bread pudding at a strawberry festival.

In Times Like These 1915

Sometimes a logging-bee was made to clear a special lot for a neighbor, and a band of wood-choppers worked all day together.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

To effect this the more readily we called a logging-bee.

The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850

In my next I shall give you an account of our logging-bee, which will take place the latter end of this month.

The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850

J.W.D.M. A logging-bee followed the burning of the fallow, as a matter of course.

Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

A logging-bee followed the burning of the fallow, as a matter of course.

Life in the Backwoods Susanna Moodie 1844